October 2003 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

font scaling
by Thomas A.Schmitz 17 Oct '03

17 Oct '03

After doing some work, I think I now have a wonderful working collection of classical Greek fonts. There is one thing I'd love to implement though, but I wonder if it's possible. i guess I have to begin by describing my approach: every Greek font is provided by a .tex file which has the following content (in part, this is Giuseppe Bilotta's work, he got me started on this): \definebodyfont[10pt,11pt,12pt,14pt][rm][Gf=Ibycus] \def\enablegreek{\language[greek]\catcode`~=\other\catcode`|=\other\catc ode`'=\other} \def\startgreek{\par\begingroup\Gf\enablegreek} \let\stopgreek\endgroup \def\localgreek{\groupedcommand{\Gf\enablegreek}{}} Then, the file declares a couple of special symbols like so \define\koppa{\getglyph{Ibycus}{\char37}} The Greek font is declared by using \input Ibycus in the preamble of the document. I have a collection of 6 fonts; when I want to switch between them, I just replace \input Ibycus by \imput someotherfile. All of this works wonderfully for the time being. Now the problem: most of the time, I want to mix Greek and Latin fonts, and in order to do this, some sort of scaling has to be done (because the size of different Latin fonts varies so much). Right now, I do this by editing the input file like so \definebodyfont[10pt,11pt,12pt,14pt][rm][Gf=Ibycus sa 1.05] but I wonder if it would be possible to do this more elegantly: is there a way to make this an argument that will be passed on automatically? What I'm dreaming of is something like this \input Ibycus[sa 1.05] and it would automatically scale at 1.05. Any ideas how this could be achieved? And if anybody is interested: I'd love to share this stuff and find a couple of beta testers to see if it works on other computers, too. Best Thomas

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repeated headers in the TABLE environment
by Lutz Haseloff 17 Oct '03

17 Oct '03

Hi all, how can i get repeated headers for a splitted TABLE? I tried to define \setupTABLE[split=yes] and have \bTH \eTH in my header row. up-008-s.pdf didn't help further. Greetings Lutz

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references over several documents
by gmorais 16 Oct '03

16 Oct '03

Hello All: At this moment i am producing a set of documents, that ocasionally have refences among them. For eg: document 1 \starttext \placeformula[eq:1.1] \startformula e = m c^2 \stopformula \stoptext document 2 \starttext In here I want to refer to equation 1.1 in document 1 \stoptext How can I do it? Thanks in advance: Gonçalo

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Re: [NTG-context] TeX Live 2003 miseries.
by Hans Hagen 16 Oct '03

16 Oct '03

At 01:11 15/10/2003, you wrote: >1. the perl scripts were confused by the embedded spaces in the default >"c:\Program Files\.." install path. In general, ConTeXt does not play >well for paths that have embedded spaces. http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/mswintex (just runsetuptex,bat in the path where it is) http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/linuxtex (run setuptex and generate formats) is the minimum that you need for context. For windows the trick is in using irun in the right way, i.e. either use a full path spec or something relative like ../../whatever (which is what i've done there); i didn't test it for "program files" Hans

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Re: [NTG-context] TeX Live 2003 miseries.
by George N. White III 16 Oct '03

16 Oct '03

On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, John Culleton wrote: > I installed the latest version of TeXLive 2003 (the so-called demo > version) and did the fmtutil and texhash bit. When I ran a job for a > customer, texexec hung up at the point where a graphic was being > loaded. So I went back to last year's texlive in a terrible hurry. > That worked fine. What platform? I tried to install various rc's on Win98 and ran into numerous problems: 1. the perl scripts were confused by the embedded spaces in the default "c:\Program Files\.." install path. In general, ConTeXt does not play well for paths that have embedded spaces. 2. the perl scripts search the PATH directories and supply a the full pathname of programs (e.g., /texLive/bin/Win32/kpsewhich.exe) to perl's backtick. This failed when running texexec.exe in a command.com window, Replaceing the "/" with "\" helps, but there were too many places to fix in the time available, and meanwhile the disk on the system I was borrowing died (due, I am quite sure, to overextertion caused by the direct searching of the texmf trees for texexec.ini when kpsewhich failed to run). On Mandrake linux 9.0 and SGI Irix 6.5 TeXLive 2003 (full install) works fine (using the current cont-tmf.zip which is a few days newer than the version in TeXLive 2003). The perl scripts have not changed. > Earlier, when TeXLive 2003 was still in beta they left out texexec > altogether. On unix they just forgot to make some symlinks, the perl scripts were there. On Win32, I used Active State perl.exe to run the scripts. > Has anyone else tried Context using graphics on TeXLive 2003? I hate > to report a bug to Tug if my experience is unique. OTOH if the iso > image is defective in some way I do need to let someone know pronto. I'm not sure about the demo image. If you are using Win32, does texexec.exe find texexec.ini using kpsewhich? -- George N. White III <aa056(a)chebucto.ns.ca>

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\but command for referring to index.
by John Culleton 16 Oct '03

16 Oct '03

The useful d-en-all.tex example shows buttons used for accessing Acrobat Reader functions and also for jumping to the Contents page. I would like to create a button that would jump to the back-of-book index. The info in the manual is a bit terse and I don't quite follow it. also, I read posts referring to a \button command. How does this differ from the \but command? Thanks for any help! -- John Culleton Able Typesetters and Indexers http://wexfordpress.com

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Typo in d-en-all.tex
by John Culleton 15 Oct '03

15 Oct '03

I uncovered an ancient typo. Here is a text fragment from the above document: \ShowSample {001} {A simple document} \ShowSample {002} {Setting up the page} \ShowSample {003} {Using the margin} \ShowSample {004} {Adaptive headers and footers} \ShowSample {004} {Some bookmarks} The 004 file is called twice, and the 005 file is omitted. Sounds like a case for 007 :-) John Culleton

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again inmargin problems
by Willi Egger 15 Oct '03

15 Oct '03

Dear gang, Thanks Bill for your reply on my previous mail concerning struggles with the inmargin texts. As you can see I explicitely set the width of the margins. In order to make things easier to see I attach a minimal test file. Does anybody see the clue, how to tell Context to use the full marginwidth? Cheers Willi

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Odp: Re: [NTG-context] Visual creators for ConTeXt
by ^Nitram^ 15 Oct '03

15 Oct '03

Hi, [cut seggestion] Ok - I wait for any comments and I will work for improving functionality - but of course I have limited time for working on it. ;( But after weekend I think there will be much more ;) > Is is it posible that the popu-window for changing the shape and [cut] Hmm... For now the 'window' is calling 'in reference' to changing element - for elements near side of document this menu is hidding and scrolling is needed - I will try do it automatically ;) And also scrolling to actual choiced element type in that long list of types ;) > The table creator looks promising. Nice to read polish helptexts :-) It is a mistake, of course ;) Have someone a little time to writing texts in english ? ;) My knolwedge of English is a little poor, so sometimes I have a problems ;( > Nice overview of the commands. Is there a "copy to clipboard" > intended? Of course ;) > I hope you will further invest into this project. I hope so, too ;) I will try implement also setups for \setupTABLE (especially odd, even columns and rows), so the question is: is somewhere examples how use xml commands instead setupTABLE ? I would like make alternative choice to generating code - for bTABLE-eTABLE environment and <table>-</table> also. -- Best regards Martin

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Re: [NTG-context] Visual creators for ConTeXt
by ^Nitram^ 15 Oct '03

15 Oct '03

Hi, > (btw, do you use the xml alternative of the command reference?) I'm sorry - could you explain this question?... ;) Parameters for commands I get from manual - I had a short script in php which made a code in javascript - that is a cause of many errors in these 'creators'... But the code is preparing to making help on each parameter and each value, but where can I find so detailed description ;) I'm realy new user in ConTeXt - about 2 months (no experience in any TeX system before) so you must forgive my inexperience ;) -- Best regards Martin

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